Prince William Sound

American

noun

a sound in the Gulf of Alaska, on the S coast of Alaska: S end of Trans-Alaska oil pipeline at port of Valdez.

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A prototype system by Karasözen and West capable of real-time detection has been in place since August in the area of the Barry Arm of Prince William Sound.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

The Safer holds four times the amount of oil spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

From BBC • May 31, 2023

Decades later, the toll lingers in traces of the spill that remain in Prince William Sound, where some wildlife populations—orcas, for example—have never recovered.

From Scientific American • May 17, 2023

Her photograph of the first oil-coated bird found in Prince William Sound in Alaska, illustrating the disaster caused by oil tanker Exxon Valdez, earned her a World Press Photo award.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

And then there was the wayward genius I bumped into on the shore of Prince William Sound in 1981.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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